Pledge 1% encourages and challenges individuals and companies to pledge 1% of equity, product and employee time for their communities, because pledging a small portion of future success can have a huge impact on tomorrow.

To force the big players like Vodafone and Orange to pay them in advance by sharing mutual customers. How they do this ?

The voice business - where The Cloud is prodding customers and business to make cheap VOIP calls through its hotspots.

VOIP- as according to London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010.

They are already teaming up with SKYPE which allow SKYPE users to call anywhere from their hot-spots through headset-equipped laptops. The purpose of working with SKYPE is because it has 66 million registered users, and if these people connect via Cloud's networks instead of a mobile network, mobile operators will lose revenue big time.

This coupled with even more disruptive power (to earn more money) when mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia and Motorolla start to sell dual-mode phones that let users call via the Net or mobile networks, without SKYPE's software. Shouldn't SKYPE already negotiated to prevent this ?

The biggest challenge for mobile network operators are..

"If they don't embrace these things, they'll lose the game." George Polk, CEO of The Cloud

Thus, mobile network operators like Vodafone and Orange is expected to pay The Cloud some commission to channel back certain users to their networks. Or they can pay up-front booking fees to have certain traffics reserved for them.

~Now i know why eBay wanted to acquire SKYPE~

contents taken from - Time December 12, 2005 by Mark Halper/LondonScenario in Malaysia?